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T HENRY FORD THINKS OF WAR 



By FRANK BOMVILLE 



(Copyrighted 1922.) 




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10 cents per copy up to 100 copies; over 100 copies, 7 cents per copy, f. o. b. Seattle. 
THE BONVILLE BUREAU OF INFORMATION 

Seattle, Wa^h , U. S. A. 



301 Lyon Building 



By Albert Sidney Gregg. 

... Now at 57 years of age Mr. Ford is at the head of an indus- 
trial army of 80,000 human beings, aside from agents, garage owners, 
accessory dealers and others indirectly identified with the Ford inter- 
ests. He owns thirty-five plants in the United States, a $5,000,000 
plant at Cork, Ireland, which makes tractors; also assembling plants 
at Cadiz, Copenhagen, Bordeaux and Manchester. He also has two 
assembling plants in South America. His largest factory is at High- 
land Park, Detroit, where 40,000 people are engaged in making Ford 
cars, and the River Rouge plant, nine miles across Detroit, where auto 
parts and tractors are being turned out. In addition to his factories, 
Mr. Ford owns the Dearborn Independent, a weekly with a national 
circulation; the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad, a farm of 5,000 
acres. . . . The railroad runs from Detroit to Ironton, Ohio, a distance 
of 454 miles in a southeasterly direction, to a point where Ohio, West 
Virginia and Kentucky touch shoulders. . . . When he was 40 years 
old he was supposed to be a failure. A dozen men formerly identified 
with Ford have become multi-millionaires. . . . He turns out automo- 
biles at the rate of five thousand a day. . . . Ford's outstanding trait 
is direct action. He doesn't like . . . red tape. He is disposed to take 
the shortest route. ... He has given fifty years and spent $40,000,000 
on the evolution of the Fordson farm tractor. Now he is ready to 
make and market them at the rate of a million a year. . . . D. T. & I. 
Railroad in its existence of fifty years has been reorganized twenty- 
six times. . . . Ford knew exactly how he stood all the time and let 
other folks do the worrying. . . . Mr. Ford is a hard worker. ... He 
believes in going after first-hand facts. . . . Another of his visions is 
that everybody should work at some productive labor and that nobody 
should be allowed to live by the toil of others. . . . And he is dead 
sure that tomorrow is going to be better than today. . . . Ford has 
also given a $5,000,000 hospital to Detroit. 
[Reprinted by permission of Success Magazine. Copyrighted 1922.] 

I met Bonville August 2, 1916. He was admitted to the office, after 
stating that his business was with Mr. Theodore Delavigne, Mr. Ford's 
Peace Secretary. . . . Mr. Delavigne asked if I could locate Mr. Ford, 
and in a few minutes I had him at the office. Mr. Bonville and Mr. 
Ford met. ... I arranged many dates for Mr. Delavigne and Mr. Bon- 
ville after that. — Michael Vicari, Assistant to Theodore Delavigne. 

Farm mortgages increased 132 per cent in the United States in the 10 
years ended with the 1920 census. The present total is more than 
$7,000,000,000. . . . Unless there is a change, what can the end be? — 
Oregon Journal, 

Workers of all races, creeds, nationalities and colors are joined hand 
in hand. — The Messenger, February, 1922. 

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THE HAND OF LABOR SUPPORTS THE WORLD 



The following is taken from the Ford International Weekly of 
July 5, 1919: 

"The Capitalist . . . can do more than any other man. . . . The 
trouble with him is selfishness and ignorance— mainly his ignorance. 
He seems to know nothing of the history of feudalism and the 
French Revolution. He seems never to have studied the cause of 
the present state in Russia. He seems to be ignorant of the fact 
that the unsettled condition of affairs in this country today are in 
the main due to the over-reaching of his class in the last two or 
three generations. He seems unable to grasp the fact that he is 
in the minority, and that the majority are moving on into a new 
social, political and industrial order. ... The labor problem will 
never be solved by a soldier with a gun. ... The time has come 
when we must stop and face and solve the labor problem where we 
are, with everybody present. . . . Something should be done, and 
done at once ... for the common use of all men. ... 

"... Another thing we should look into is the length of the 
working day. ... I think that eight hours is even longer than is 
necessary. I cannot see why the employer should rob the employes 
of the mcjor portion of the benefit arising from the introduction 
of machinery. I cannot see why, if a machine can do the work of 
ten or twenty men, a man should be compelled to work at that 
machine as many hours as he did formerly when his output was 
one-tenth or one-twentieth as much. . . . 

" . . . As for wages— nothing can be solved by wages. A high 
minimum wage will do no good. If other conditions were to remain 
unchanged, a minimum wage of twenty dollars a day would be of 
benefit to the working classes for no longer period than it would take 
the landlords to raise the rent and the middlemen in food distribu- 
tion to increase the prices of food. 

"... I think the time has come when men of wealth must rec- 
ognize that wealth is not a private possession. It never was and 
never can be. Wealth is the fruit of labor. It is only another 
form of labor, and it belongs to labor. t . . 

"It is time to quit our hypocritical piety in the form of 'charity' 
and to begin to be just in our dealings with men." 



from- LiXo f Jaauv^ry 11^1917^ 









Labor of the World Awakening 



None has the right to incite the war spirit who will not himself be one 
of the first to shoulder a rifle and march to the front. — Henry Ford. 



Let any hostile army or navy today or any other time move against 
the United States and anything I have is at the disposal of the country 
for defense. And I would not take a cent of profit. — Henry Ford. 



SAYINGS BY MR. FORD 

War is murder, the waster of lives and homes and lands, and "pre- 
paredness" has never prevented war. 



History is more or less bunk. The trouble with the world is we're 
living in books and history. We want to get away from that and take 
care of today. We've done too much looking back. 



Let us have disarmament; let us show that we mean peace. The 
"preparedness" now being preached is nothing but a criminal waste. 



But when we think that millions of men are driven to slaughter by the 
system of murder, I feel that this cry for the training of men to kill 
other men and for the placing of an army and navy as a burden on the 
backs of the people is a false conception of patriotism. 

The histories have been stories of war, with the horrors and the 
destruction glossed over and passed upon casually, while the men who 
took part in it all were glorified. The chapters began and ended with 
wars. The lines spoke the glory of war, but did not tell of the thou- 
sands of ruined homes and sorrowing women who waited and wept. 
Nor did they dwell at length on the destruction of industry and the 
material growth of the country. 

A LETTER FROM JAMES A. DUNCAN, 

Secretary of the Central Labor Council, which represents about 
70,000 union men of Seattle and vicinity: 

"Mr. Frank Bonville: Please be advised that in response to your 
letter of September 8th, the Central Labor Council of Seattle and 
Vicinity has concurred in your request for its moral support by 
endorsing your campaign for a six-hour day. With best wishes for 
success, I am "James A. Duncan." 

September 22, 1919. 

Sayings of Henry Ford. — We are in a condition which must change 
or break ... a condition the like of which was never seen before. It 
is the result of the total breakdown of old ideals. ... I will devote life 
and fortune to the combating of militarism. 



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Henry Ford has announced the inauguration of the SIX-HOUR DAY 
in all of his plants throughout the country. 







Flag-Draped CasketsofEddifsloneVictims 




The book entitled "WHAT HENRY IS DOING," by Frank Bonville, 
224 pages, 185 illustrations, $1:00. Postage paid to all parts of the 
world. Address all communications to The Bonville Bureau, of Infor- 
mation, 301 Lyon Building, Seattle, Wash., U. S. A. 

From a letter of Frank P. Walsh, of New York City. ex-Chairman of 
the Industrial Relations Commission, dated August 11, 1919. — Your 
plan, Mr. Bonville, for disseminating cogent and striking expressions 
from all sources is a splendid one and, to my mind, capable of very 
extended and useful development. 

UNITED STATES SENATE 
Mr. Frank Bonville, Seattle, Wash. 

Dear Sir: Thank you for your letter of July 11th. I hardly 
need to assure you of my sympathetic interest and that I shall always 
be pleased to be advised as to the progress you are making. 

Very truly yours, Robert M. LaFollbtte. 



STAR— TUESDAY. JUNE 11, 1918. PAGE fr— 

The Handwriting on the Wall 




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This illustration, which was taken 
from the "Cosmopolitan," January, 
1917, gives an idea of the hard 
thinking that Mr. Ford must be 
doing at times in order to devise 
some way to spend this wave of 
wealth which is daily flowing in. 
*7e are positive that he is doing 
all that he can to place this in- 
come where it will do the most 
good in general to humanity. 



SAYINGS BY MR. FORD 



The worker is going to end the conditions that allow the man he places 
above him to give that murderous order; to cause him to seek the life 
of a brother worker in another land and send that brother searching 
in turn for his blood. And I would assist this worker to educate his 
children from the cradle to think only in terms of peace, to hate war 
and all the accoutrements of war, and strive forever to drive from the 
world this spirit of murder. 



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THE ONE BIG UNION MONTHLY 
July, 1919. 




THE MEXICAN SITUATION 



THE FEDERATED PRESS 

August 21, 1920. 
Bureau of Information, Seattle, Washington. 

Dear Sirs: I have just run across a copy of Frank Bonville's 
book on Henry Ford. It is a gratifying compilation of facts which 
the public ought to know. . . . We are now serving more than 100 
labor papers in the United States and Canada. 

Truly yours, 
[Signed] John Nicholas Beffel, Acting News Ed. 



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"COMMON SENSE," Feb., 1920, published by Wm. H. Coin Harvey, 
Montene, Ark. — . . . The earth is ready at the touch of industry and 
intelligence to make a home for each and every one comfortably. . . . 
There is something radically wrong in our civilization. . . . The prof- 
its of money lending are greater than the profits of industry. . . . 
A bank with a capital and surplus of $100,000 can loan $500,000 and 
still have its $100,000. . . . They are not loaning actual money; they 
are loaning credit, which is made possible by the deposit and check- 
ing system. ... On five billion dollars of capital and surplus the 
banks are drawing interest on twenty-five billion dollars. . . . The 
people are now in debt to the banking system more than $25,222,849,- 
814. . . . Ten thousand dollars kept at compound 6 per cent interest 
beginning 100 years ago is now 3 million 300 thousand dollars. . . . 
To bankers and other money lenders: You are not to blame for 
doing what you have done; few have known the facts in regard to 
this subject; it has been regarded as a proper and legitimate business, 
and it was here when you came into this life. ... A continuation of the 
system of money lending will bring increased suffering, despotism and 
internal revolution in which you may lose all, including life itself. . . . 
To business men: With many of you, to make "ends meet" you are 
busy and do not take time to investigate the cause of unrest. You 
have not probably heretofore investigated this subject. ... To labor 
unions: The money trust created a condition that forced you to 
organize. . . . 

SAYINGS BY MR. FORD 

The pity of it is that this same war talk is allowed to take up the 
columns of newspapers and magazines that could be used towards 
the inspiration of peace. 

They refuse to remember that England, during the present war, with 
absolute control of the sea, required 33 days to move 30,000 troops, 
UNEQUIPPED, from one friendly port, Quebec, to another friendly 
port, Southampton. Yet they tell you glibly of 400,000 enemies land- 
ing on our shores almost over night. 

Most railroad presidents are "messenger boys" for Wall Street. 

Take away the capitalist and you sweep war from the earth. 

A stamp rightly used will hold in the hands of the people the ruling 
power. 



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THE LIBERATOR March, 1919 




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SAYINGS BY MR. FORD 

Millions of men, every one of them a husband, a son, a father, or a 
brother, have gone to their death on the battle^elds of Europe. There 
is sorrow in millions of homes. 

The workers are going to put an end to the system that tears them 
away from their families against their will to murder their foreign 
brother workers. 

Five hundred and twenty-eight banks failed during the year 1921, 
according to a statement issued by Comptroller of the Currency Cris- 
singer, summarizing bank failures for the year. 



"The 99-Year Contract System"— By Frank Bonville 

Contains important data in regard to the railroad situation; also the Six-Hour Day. 
Send 10c for 7 this 24-page booklet to 301 LYON BLDG., SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. 



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THE BANKERS' CONSPIRACY 

(Seattle Union Record of February 6, 1922.) 

We must proceed with caution and guard well every move made, 
for the lower orders of the people are already showing signs of rest- 
less commotion. Prudence will, therefore, dictate a policy of ap- 
parently yielding to the popular will until all our plans are so far 
consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of any 
organized resistance. 

The Farmer's Alliance and the Knights of Labor organizations 
in the United States should be carefully watched by our trusted men 
and we must take immediate steps to control these organizations in 
our interests or disrupt them. 

At the coming Omaha convention, to be held July 4th, our men 
must attend and direct its movements, or else there will be set on foot 
such antagonism to our designs as may require force to overcome. 

This, at the present time, would be premature. We are not yet 
ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every possible 
manner through combination and legislation. 

The Courts must be called to our aid, debts must be collected, 
bonds and mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. 

When, through a process of law, the common people have lost 
their homes, they will be more tractable and easily governed through 
the influence of the strong arm of government applied by a central 
power of imperial wealth under the control of leading financiers. A 
people without homes will not quarrel with tfieir rulers. 

"History repeats itself" in regular cycles. This truth is well 
known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperial- 
ism of capital to govern the world. While) they are doing this the 
people must be kept in position of political antagonism. 

The question of tariff reform must be urged through the organ- 
ization known as the Democratic party, and the question of pro- 
tection with reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republi- 
can party. 

By thus dividing the voters we can get them to expend their 
energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as 
teachers to lead the common herd. Thus by discreet action we can 
secure all that has been so generously planned and successfully accom- 
plished. — (From Bankers' Magazine, June, 1892.) 



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(From the Dearborn Independent, November, 1920.) 

SAYINGS BY MR. FORD 

I see no use in spending time about Heaven and Hell. . . . We want 
to take care of today. . . . Charity takes more than it gives. 

The difference between me and a capitalist/ is that I earn my living 
honestly. I produce. A capitalist loans out his money, collects his 
interest and lets the others do the work. 



I would teach the child at the mother's knee what a horrible thing 
war is. 



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PH01I TH2 8WJ3 TD.T3S,J?2BRUARY 1916. 




TIk deriwnd of -Preparednc 



SAYINGS BY MR. FORD 



Militarism is preached throughout the land by newspaper men, by 
magazines, moving pictures. And it is all done under the guise of 
patriotism. The flag is flaunted before the eyes of the people and 
we are told that our "national honor" is at stake. 

I chanced to be in New York the day President Wilson broke off 
diplomatic relations with Germany and with my own eyes I saw flags 
run up all over Wall Street. There was no doubt about that. Those 
people wanted the United States to get into war. They publicly 
rejoiced and hoisted their flags to show their "patriotism." What 
patriotism? J^or what there was in it. There you had a living picture 
of the influence which causes wars, a brazen illustration that the 
blood of possibly millions of our boys means nothing to men who 
can make money out of fighting. 

But I also noticed another thing. While the flags were out and 
there was public rejoicing that this country was to be plunged into 
the slaughter and the speculators were rushing around like mad to 
take advantage of the new crop of blood money in sight, there was 
not a single evidence that the "patriotism" of these people went a 
step beyond.. There was no rush to get into the trenches, because 
these speculators were surging around to provide for the grim busi- 
ness of modern warfare, and do not care who wins or loses so long 
as they continue to get the money. 



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February 18, 1920. 
Mr. Frank Bonville. 

Dear Friend: I have just received a copy of your great book, 
"What Henry Ford Is Doing." Please' accept my hearty congratula- 
tions for this greatest piece of propaganda that has been produced 
in the last fifty years. 

Yours, sincerely, J. Schaffer. 




THE IRON CROSS 

SAYINGS BY MR. FORD 



I ran for senator. I did not get elected, but it taught me how those 
fellows carry elections — those who want war. They are the same 
bunch the world over. I carried the State of Michigan, but they 
counted me out. 



This is where you newspaper men . . . ought to turn your attention 
to the working conditions in this country and tell the truth about 
them. Then you would be doing something for the good of the race. 
Now you are a detriment. You are fooling the people, and you will 
pay for it some day. 



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What I want to do is to make the farmer as inde pendent j as I am. 
I practice no charity. I give nothing for which I do not leceive 
compensation.— (Henry Ford.) 



As old Lew Dockstader remarks truthfully, if jokingly, "The two best 
friends of the United States are the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. " 

[By Charles Grant Miller, in Seattle Union Record, May 31, 
1918] : — . . . Where does the press get all these funk, fictitious ex- 
cuses for high prices? . . . This dynamic document [income tax report] 
shows that coal operators' profits in 1917 actually ranged in one in- 
stance as high as 7,856 per cent, or 78 times the capitalization. Of 
the 404 coal companies, 185 (nearly half) made profits of 100 per 
cent and up. The net income of all the 404 companies, having a 
total capital stock of $175,000,000, was $78,000,000, or nearly 45 per 
cent. . . . Canners of fruit and vegetables as high as 2,032 per cent; 
woolen mills, 1,770; furniture manufacturers, 3,295; clothing and dry 
goods stores, 9,826; and — now hold your breath — a steel company, 
with a capital stock of $5,000, made a net income of $14,549,925, a 
net profit of 220,999 per cent. A net profit of 290,999 per cent in 
one year! . . . These figures are not gased on hearsay or rumor or 
gossip, but are the income tax returns of the companies themselves, 
as officially reported by the secretary of the treasury to the senate. 
. . . One clothing and dry goods store made a profit in one year of 
9,826 per cent — 98 times its investment. . . . The official facts are 
the rightful property of the people. . . . War profits created 18,000 
new millionaires in this country — is this our glory? One millionaire 
was made to eveiy three of our boys killed in France — is that our gain? 



SAYINGS BY MR. FORD 

I am not going to stop until I have ten million subscriptions to my 
weekly magazine. 

Why fear change? No one will be hurt in the good changes, even 
the idle nobleman. Get the gambling aristocrats and the capitalists 
to work. Unless we in our industries are helping to solve the social 
problems, we are not doing our principal work. 

The workingmen of the United States are not getting a square deal. 

I am fighting the capitalists with their own tools. 

The people must stop thinking of the Government as something be- 
yond them. The people are the Government. Every American is a 
stockholder in his Government. 

Be the life work of the man — to strike with everything he commands 
at what he declares to be the direct cause of all wars. 

The workingman is beginning to realize that it is not the rulers of 
the nations who make war. I firmly believe that every man who 
deliberately devotes his life to the trade of a soldier is either lazy 
or crazy. 



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